Bring on the rain!

Here in my little corner of Texas we have not had a drop of rain in something like 24 days! Everyday temperatures reach above 100 degrees leaving a thirsty, scorched landscape. Watering restrictions only allow us to water our lawns twice a week. It is never enough and now everywhere are huge dead spots in the lawn...

So, short of getting a woo-woo stick and doing a lunar rain dance, I decided to make an apron that would call the rain. Why a half apron? Well, when I started thinking about making a rain inducing apron I harkened back to my days as a teacher of Texas History. Our textbook talked about the first settler's thrill at finding nice large rivers in Texas like the Brazos, Colorado, and the Nueces. However, they also discovered that Texas rivers are either too low from drought or flooded from torrential rains.

With that in mind, I figured I needed to make my rain calling apron a half apron. After all, I didn't want a hurricane to hit the Texas coast. ALL the coastal residents and ALL the rain would stop in Central Texas. I figured a half apron might just call a small tropical depression with 24 hours of a good soaking rain!

My contribution to rainmaking is this adorable apron which has been fully cut on the bias so it swirls out. I believe that this ability may help when doing a lunar rain dance. If that doesn't work, there's always the woo-woo stick!